With the modeling and the details of the model surface finished, I also ushered in the final finishing work—- character animation. Before officially starting to make animation, it is necessary to establish a skeletal system on the completed character model, in our general understanding, the skeletal system is made of a number of tedious procedures, which includes complex knowledge of the anatomy of the human body structure and the understanding and analysis of human joint activity and corresponding application measures, fortunately, maya modeling software comes with a perfect skeletal system and a very convenient adjustment system for the user, so I didn’t encounter a very difficult problem in this process.
However, while modeling a character with a skeleton is not difficult for maya software, it also takes a certain amount of skill and patience to apply it perfectly to the unique work I designed. For example, the difficulty of this process is to adjust the range of motion of the modeled joint and the range of motion of the peripheral skeletal muscles that are pulled by it, including adding relevant animation effects to the connected clothing ornaments. The reason why it is called difficult is because setting these parameters needs to be integrated into our personal understanding of dynamic performance, including the interpretation of the human body’s active state, the analysis of the movement pattern corresponding to the material thickness of the physical cloth, and the understanding of the dead angle of the action and the impossibility of motion.
The most troubling thing about this is the animation involved in the material of the clothes, because the type of clothing I set when designing the character is a classical Chinese costume that has been precipitated for 5,000 years, and the exquisite design and indispensable historical background contained in it will become the most difficult card on my design road. Chinese traditional clothing is not only limited to cumbersome and gorgeous accessories, but also reflects its historical significance is the beautiful pattern embroidered on the surface of the cloth, the best embodiment of which is that in ancient times, in order to make a valuable and identity value of the cloth, the Chinese ancients will use thousands of years to spend thousands of years on a piece of cloth to carry out millions of embroidery actions. This shows the importance of cloth design for traditional Chinese clothing. And what my design needs to reflect this time is these two points, elegant, and noble, but not losing cuteness. As a result, my complex costume design added a huge challenge to my skeletal system detail adjustment project. But this is not a point to complain about, because since my modeling and detailing are complete, these seemingly difficult processes are just patient consumables, so as long as there is enough time and energy, this step is not a difficult step.